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New music roundup for March 2015... Find out about the latest from Colombia's Bomba Estereo, UK reggae outfit The Skints, up-and-coming dancehall singer from Jamaica Toian, new Middle-Eastern music from Niyaz and...

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Sound Travels

Join Marcus Doucette Monday through Friday for a daily dose of global sounds. Then tune in on Sundays at 8 for a hour of the best world music. Sound Travels is sponsored by Nomad World Pub, Hue Vietnamese Restaurant, and Fink's.

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Let's be clear, I knew I'd be writing about Bixiga 70 since at least 2011. The only surprise for me is that I'd assumed they be laying an afrobeat masterpiece on the world a little bit sooner than they did when they did what they did and...

The weekend follow-up for Sound Travels Radio; a program built around the sound of afrobeat. If there was any doubt that the sound pioneered by the late Fela Kuti and his human drum-machine Tony Allen is limited to his native Nigeria,...

Don't be ashamed that you've no idea what Frafra means, I just learned and am happy to tell you about this lovely jewel of a single from an artist named Guy One. As it turns out, Guy One reps Ghana as the voice of the Frafra people in...